Feldon 
UPDATE as of 9:00am PST, SOE’s 1/2 hour 2 hour 3 hour unscheduled (or at least unannounced) company-wide maintenance is over:
“@thegreatmutato: Today's SOE-wide maintenance is now FINISHED. Issues with logins & other general weirdness should be over.” What he said!
— SOEHelp (@SOEHelp) January 29, 2015
Original article after the jump…
UPDATE: Looks like the maintenance window has been extended:
Today's SOE-wide maintenance is still in process. Game and Forum login and commerce issues may persist. Thanks for your patience.
— EverQuest II (@everquestii) January 29, 2015
Original:
From the EQ2 Forums:
Attention players: we will a perform maintenance beginning at 6:00 AM PST* on Thursday, January 29, 2015. We expect this maintenance to last about one and a half hours. This maintenance might impact the following SOE services:
Commerce functions, including purchases, for all gamesGame loginsWeb and forum logins for all SOE sitesThank you for your patience as we complete this maintenance.
and from Twitter:
There is an SOE-wide maintenance in process. Game and forum logins and commerce may be unavailable during this time. Est. downtime = 2 hrs.
— EverQuest II (@everquestii) January 29, 2015
Yeah! They changed the goblins…..and at least currently have removed in-game channels and friends lists!
Surprise maintenance the same day they announce they’ll close the international forums…I’ve got a bad feeling about this. Maybe a Deja Vu…
It is sad about the international forums. The German forum seemed to have a nice amount of traffic but the other two were pretty darn quiet.
I look forward to seeing you on the English forums )) Willkommen!
I’m still having login issues at 1pm est
In-game channels and friends lists are back after relogging, appears to have been connected to the same condition that had their forums unable to be logged into.